TPN3704
Assignment number: 50
PORTFOLIO
2023
,HOME LANGUAGE LESSON 1:
HOME LANGUAGE TEACHING STORY TELLING GRADE 4
Name & student number Grade & Date
Content area Telling stories/ Subject English
Type of lesson Group work Theme of the week The perfect recipe for a
perfect story
Name of school Name of Teacher
Outcomes Learners are able to:
identify and describe story elements.
Materials:
Any fiction book
"The Elves and the Shoemaker" story
"The Elves and the Shoemaker" story map
Blank cube
Scissors
Tape
Chart paper
Markers
Concepts and new character
knowledge of the
setting
lesson
problem
solution
,Differentiation Enrichment:
provided (Enrichment
/ Have learners write down the elements for various stories they know.
learner Have them find the elements of the story of their independent stories
support/concerns they’re reading.
Support:
Encourage struggling learners to reference an example from the teacher’s
model. Use questions such as WHO? For the characters, WHERE? For the
setting etc
LESSON PRESENTATION
Introduction of Introduction (5 minutes)
lesson
Explain that learners will learn all the parts that make a story. Also mention
that they would add the parts of a story in the same way that ingredients
are added and put in a recipe.
Raise a discussion on recipe. With guiding questions such as: Why do you
need a recipe? What happens if you forget an ingredient? Explain that when
an author writes a story, he/she must have certain parts, and every part is
just as important as any other part.
Ask your learners how the story of The Three Little Pigs would change if pigs
and the wolf were not in the story. Discussion questions may be: How would
the story change if the wolf never tried to blow down the pigs' houses?
Explain to the learners that these are the parts that make the story what it
is.
Body of lesson
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (20 minutes)
Tell learners that there are various ingredients that any story must have,
including character, or the people or animals involved, setting, or the time
and place, problem, or the issue the story talks about, and the solution or
how the problem is fixed.
Read a model fiction picture book of your choosing to the learners, and
identify each element mentioned above.
Display a chart with a list of the ingredients or elements needed for the
story.
Check off with the class that each of the four elements was present in the
story. Ensure everyone participates.
, Next to the ingredient, write an example from the story you chose to read.
Have learners to turn and talk to their desk mates and tell the story over
again. Remind learners to not forget all the appropriate details that relate to
the story elements from the read aloud.
Guided Practice (15 minutes)
Give the Elves and the Shoemaker story, story map, and blank cube
worksheet to every learner.
Have learners cut the cube and write one story element on every side of the
cube.
Show how to roll the cube as a die and explain that the face that comes up
is the element they need to name and give the class an example from the
story read with their partners.
Instruct the learners to read the story and have them roll the cube and
share the details about the story
Have the learners tell the story in their own words to their desk mate
Consolidation
Independent working time (15 minutes)
/Conclusion
Instruct the learners to complete the story map based on their
discussions with their desk mates and their reading of the Elves and
the Shoemaker story
Encourage them to refer to the story whilst they complete the map
Assessment (5 minutes)
Walk around and monitor as learners read and discuss the elements.
Collect the graphic organizers to further check for learner
understanding.
Question learners as they work about how they identified the
elements and share their understanding
Review and closing
(5 minutes)
Ask learners to describe how having all of the parts of a story
compares to following a recipe. Identify those who can’t see the
connection and explain to them how the two relate
Assignment number: 50
PORTFOLIO
2023
,HOME LANGUAGE LESSON 1:
HOME LANGUAGE TEACHING STORY TELLING GRADE 4
Name & student number Grade & Date
Content area Telling stories/ Subject English
Type of lesson Group work Theme of the week The perfect recipe for a
perfect story
Name of school Name of Teacher
Outcomes Learners are able to:
identify and describe story elements.
Materials:
Any fiction book
"The Elves and the Shoemaker" story
"The Elves and the Shoemaker" story map
Blank cube
Scissors
Tape
Chart paper
Markers
Concepts and new character
knowledge of the
setting
lesson
problem
solution
,Differentiation Enrichment:
provided (Enrichment
/ Have learners write down the elements for various stories they know.
learner Have them find the elements of the story of their independent stories
support/concerns they’re reading.
Support:
Encourage struggling learners to reference an example from the teacher’s
model. Use questions such as WHO? For the characters, WHERE? For the
setting etc
LESSON PRESENTATION
Introduction of Introduction (5 minutes)
lesson
Explain that learners will learn all the parts that make a story. Also mention
that they would add the parts of a story in the same way that ingredients
are added and put in a recipe.
Raise a discussion on recipe. With guiding questions such as: Why do you
need a recipe? What happens if you forget an ingredient? Explain that when
an author writes a story, he/she must have certain parts, and every part is
just as important as any other part.
Ask your learners how the story of The Three Little Pigs would change if pigs
and the wolf were not in the story. Discussion questions may be: How would
the story change if the wolf never tried to blow down the pigs' houses?
Explain to the learners that these are the parts that make the story what it
is.
Body of lesson
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (20 minutes)
Tell learners that there are various ingredients that any story must have,
including character, or the people or animals involved, setting, or the time
and place, problem, or the issue the story talks about, and the solution or
how the problem is fixed.
Read a model fiction picture book of your choosing to the learners, and
identify each element mentioned above.
Display a chart with a list of the ingredients or elements needed for the
story.
Check off with the class that each of the four elements was present in the
story. Ensure everyone participates.
, Next to the ingredient, write an example from the story you chose to read.
Have learners to turn and talk to their desk mates and tell the story over
again. Remind learners to not forget all the appropriate details that relate to
the story elements from the read aloud.
Guided Practice (15 minutes)
Give the Elves and the Shoemaker story, story map, and blank cube
worksheet to every learner.
Have learners cut the cube and write one story element on every side of the
cube.
Show how to roll the cube as a die and explain that the face that comes up
is the element they need to name and give the class an example from the
story read with their partners.
Instruct the learners to read the story and have them roll the cube and
share the details about the story
Have the learners tell the story in their own words to their desk mate
Consolidation
Independent working time (15 minutes)
/Conclusion
Instruct the learners to complete the story map based on their
discussions with their desk mates and their reading of the Elves and
the Shoemaker story
Encourage them to refer to the story whilst they complete the map
Assessment (5 minutes)
Walk around and monitor as learners read and discuss the elements.
Collect the graphic organizers to further check for learner
understanding.
Question learners as they work about how they identified the
elements and share their understanding
Review and closing
(5 minutes)
Ask learners to describe how having all of the parts of a story
compares to following a recipe. Identify those who can’t see the
connection and explain to them how the two relate
